I Recently uploaded a .PSD file from work to my personal Google Drive so I can download and work on it at home. Today when I went onto my Google drive to download this file, when I pressed the download button, Drive opened another tab in my browser with an Error 403 'Forbidden' on it. I tried downloading some other files, and none of the other .PSD files on my drive would download either; They also gave me an Error 403. All of my other files were able to download, though.
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I do not know why I am all of a sudden not allowed access to my files as this was working just the other day. It seems awfully silly that I am forbidden to access my own files. Is there a workaround for this or am I just going to have to send a disgruntled email to Google about them restricting my access to my files?
Cannot Download Files From Google Drive
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Try logging out of all other users in your web browser or use Incognito Mode if your browser has it (which has the effect of doing this). Kudos to Ahmad for saving me with this answer today!
As he clarified (and glenviewjeff and Boynux both suggested in the comments to the OP), either of these approaches seem to help because of a bug with multiple user sign-in. It doesn't even matter if all the accounts signed in are granted permission to download the file; it's something about having more than one account signed in.
I had this happen today with .xlsx files in both Chrome and IE11. In IE11 I saw the same behavior as the OP described here:
'when I pressed the download button, Drive opened another tab in my browser with an Error 403 'Forbidden' on it. ... They also gave me an Error 403.'
In Chrome the behavior was a little different (it opened a download window prompting me to save a file with a long string of random numbers and letters and no file extension; clicking save returned a 'Failed - Forbidden' message in the download tray at the bottom), but the result is the same as the OP's subject line: Google Drive won't let me download my files.
This works for me: Right click on the file, then click on Create shareable link and use that link.
If you have multiple Google Drive accounts, try downloading in a separate browser or in Incognito Mode.
For Chrome, the shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+N.
If you are signed in using multiple account on the same browser, try to logout it first and login again. It works for me.
try to make a copy and download the file.
Before that check the access privilege in sharing.
check whether download option is ticked or not.
The too many users logged into the same browser was the cause of my issue. Rather than log them all out I just selected my name in the very top right of the Chrome browser and selected Guest from the dropdown. This opens a guest user browser and then I logged into the Google Drive account and was able to download the file not problem.
The multiple signed in account problem still exists as of today. Instead of incognito or use different browser, you can have multiple profile within Google Chrome, just switch to the profile with the google account you want to use.
Use GDrive Direct Download URL Maker is a quick workaround, if you need your Gdrive files now
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I uploaded a file on Google Drive, which is 1.3 GB in size.
Now when I try to download it through the browser (Firefox), it only downloads 1 GB,
and then downloading fails.
I tried to copy the downloading link and paste it into a download manager,
but then Google redirects to an HTML page 'ServiceLogin' and downloads it instead.
I also tried to install Google Drive for PC, but it proved to be a piece of malware,
messed up things on my computer, caused me a lot of troubles.
Google Drive Download Not Working
How can I download this large file from Google Drive without this Google Drive for PC?
Thank you.
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